2022 CS Finlandia Trophy: Info and Pre-game Chat

[gsk8]

The 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy is the fifth in a series of 10 events of the 2022-23 Figure Skating Challenger Series and is scheduled to take place in Espoo, Finland, October 5-9, 2022, at the Espoo Metro Areena. The event will feature all four figure skating disciplines (Men, Women, Pairs, and Ice Dance).

If the requirements specified in the above-mentioned documents are fulfilled, the event will count towards ISU World Standing Points, Minimum Total Technical Score, Challenger Series in Figure Skating Ranking and Prize Money.

The Challenger Series is an International Figure Skating Series, introduced during the 2014-15 season. Through ISU support, the objective is to ensure the proper and consistent organization and conduct of up to 10 International Competitions linked together within the Challenger Series. The Series gives adequate opportunities for many skaters to compete at the international senior level and earn World Standing Points. The Series also increases the opportunity for Officials to officiate at an international level.

To be considered for the Challenger Series, the competition must have at least three disciplines (Men, Women, Pair Skating, Ice Dance) from a minimum of 10 different ISU Members in all disciplines combined.

• ISU Event page
• Announcement
• Schedule (Scroll down)
• Entries/Results
• Live Stream Info (scroll down)
• Detailed Results and Protocols

 

[Laid-Back Enthusiast]

Hi, I thought maybe somebody can help me here, I want to attend the competition at every discipline except for ice dance, but the only options are for an "all-event ticket", does that mean the option to choose events will open later or am I missing something??

 

[gsk8]

You will probably have to contact the venue and/or hosting organization for clarification.

 

[gsk8]

Hi, I thought maybe somebody can help me here, I want to attend the competition at every discipline except for ice dance, but the only options are for an "all-event ticket", does that mean the option to choose events will open later or am I missing something??

The announcement was just added, but I'm not seeing any ticket info. But there are contacts on there you can try

 

[surimi]

Hi, I thought maybe somebody can help me here, I want to attend the competition at every discipline except for ice dance, but the only options are for an "all-event ticket", does that mean the option to choose events will open later or am I missing something??

I think the all-event might be the cheaper option for you than buying separate tickets for three disciplines. I may be mistaken as I haven't seen this year's page so no idea what's on offer, but I think all-events came less expensive than seperate event tickets, a few years back. Plus you get to see official practices at the main rink which are held at other times than competition times.

 

[TT_Fin]

Day ticket sales will be starting on August 9th at 10.00.

It is Finnish time, UTC+3.

Edit: I agree with surimi, if you want skip only ID, all event maybe more be cheaper than buy three different tickets. But we will see if there will be sale later. I would have probably attented this, if GP was not arranged in Finland. I think many others have same reason as me: money and work. And some may save their money and time for Euros.

 

[Violetti]

Hi, I thought maybe somebody can help me here, I want to attend the competition at every discipline except for ice dance, but the only options are for an "all-event ticket", does that mean the option to choose events will open later or am I missing something??

There will be only day tickets, so you can not choose by dicipline.

 

[TT_Fin]

Team Finland is not announced officially but I found site this just by chance when I was looking for something else information :

YL, JT, PL ISU:n kilpailupaikat syksy 2022 - Suomen Taitoluisteluliitto ry

Päivitetty 7.9. Kilpailu Ajankohta Kilpailijat Sarja ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Courchevel FRA 24. – 27.8.2022 Nella PelkonenMakar Suntsev JUNJUN Ostrava CZE 31.8. – 3.9.2022 Rosa Reponen JUN Riga LAT 7. – 10.9.2022 Nella PelkonenMakar SuntsevHilda Taylor – Urho Reina JUNJUNJUN...

www.stll.fi

I am a little bit surprised about the women, not surprised about Linnea or Oona, but about it that there is no Jenni S., Emmi P. or Olivia Lisko. There might be injuries or they have not succeed at possible selection games. Well, Janna is technically maybe the most talented of the senior women now when she is age eligible to compete in them. Emmi, Jenni, Olivia are announced to compete in other competitions later, but usually they choose the best skaters to Finlandia. Nella has not competed at seniors internationally yet, but she had good SPs at JGPs, so maybe she have skated also well in possible selections, if there has been some.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Hopefully the entries are just around the corner! I´m also surprised Jenni isn´t listed. I would think Emmi needs more time to train after her surgery, on a recent Instagram story she said she just started jumping triples again (like 2 weeks ago), but she probably has a way to go with restoring her combos and do full programs.

 

[pohatta]

Hopefully the entries are just around the corner! I´m also surprised Jenni isn´t listed. I would think Emmi needs more time to train after her surgery, on a recent Instagram story she said she just started jumping triples again (like 2 weeks ago), but she probably has a way to go with restoring her combos and do full programs.

Jenni first skated at Finlandia Trophy eight years ago, that was also my first trip to Metro Areena or whatever it was called then. Since they host three major competitions this season and Emmi & Jenni are in the GP entry list, I'm not surprised they pass this by.

 

[TT_Fin]

Jenni first skated at Finlandia Trophy eight years ago, that was also my first trip to Metro Areena or whatever it was called then. Since they host three major competitions this season and Emmi & Jenni are in the GP entry list, I'm not surprised they pass this by.

Yes, that makes sense. They give opportunity to others to skate in front of the home audience. Also I skip Finlandia this year, because of I am going to watch GP live, I cannot arrange free from job for both.

 

[TT_Fin]

It seems also Janna Jyrkinen will not skate at all at juniors this season. She can get the spot for JWC, though, because she has TES from last season. Best luck for her and everybody else at Finlandia.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Entries are out!

Men:

No.	Name	Nation
1	Vladimir LITVINTSEV	AZE	1
2	Conrad ORZEL	CAN	2
3	Pablo GARCIA	ESP	3
4	Arlet LEVANDI	EST	4
5	Mihhail SELEVKO	EST	4
6	Makar SUNTSEV	FIN	5
7	Valtter VIRTANEN	FIN	5
8	Morisi KVITELASHVILI	GEO	6
9	Kai JAGODA	GER	7
10	Nikita STAROSTIN	GER	7
11	Mark GORODNITSKY	ISR	8
12	Mikhail SHAIDOROV	KAZ	9
13	Junhwan CHA	KOR	10
14	Hyungyeom KIM	KOR	10
15	Jaeseok KYEONG	KOR	10
16	Lukas BRITSCHGI	SUI	11
17	Nikolaj MAJOROV	SWE	12
18	Andreas NORDEBACK	SWE	12
19	Kyrylo MARSAK	UKR	13
20	Mykhailo RUDKOVSKYI	UKR	13
21	Ivan SHMURATKO	UKR	13
22	Dinh TRAN	USA	14

Women

.	Name	Nation
1	Olga MIKUTINA	AUT	1
2	Jade HOVINE	BEL	2
3	Lia PEREIRA	CAN	3
4	Dora HUS	CRO	4
5	Maia SORENSEN	DEN	5
6	Eva-Lotta KIIBUS	EST	6
7	Kristina SHKULETA-GROMOVA	EST	6
8	Linnea CEDER	FIN	7
9	Janna JYRKINEN	FIN	7
10	Oona OUNASVUORI	FIN	7
11	Nella PELKONEN	FIN	7
12	Natasha MCKAY	GBR	8
13	Anastasiia GUBANOVA	GEO	9
14	Tara PRASAD	IND	10
15	Ella CHEN	ISR	11
16	Chaeyeon KIM	KOR	12
17	Yelim KIM	KOR	12
18	Haein LEE	KOR	12
19	Jogaile AGLINSKYTE	LTU	13
20	Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT	NED	14
21	Antonina DUBININA	SRB	15
22	Alexia PAGANINI	SUI	16
23	Emelie LING	SWE	17
24	Josefin TALJEGARD	SWE	17
25	Thita LAMSAM	THA	18
26	Amanda HSU	TPE	19
27	Mariia ANDRIICHUK	UKR	20
28	Hannah LOFTON	USA	21
29	Lindsay THORNGREN	USA	21

Pairs

Name	Nation
1	Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR	CAN	1
2	Anastasia VAIPAN-LAW / Luke DIGBY	GBR	2
3	Anastasiia METELKINA / Daniil PARKMAN	GEO	3
4	Alisa EFIMOVA / Ruben BLOMMAERT	GER	4
5	Annika HOCKE / Robert KUNKEL	GER	4
6	Letizia ROSCHER / Luis SCHUSTER	GER	4
7	Daria DANILOVA / Michel TSIBA	NED	5
8	Nika OSIPOVA / Dmitry EPSTEIN	NED	5
9	Isabella GAMEZ / Aleksandr KOROVIN	PHI	6
10	Maria MOKHOVA / Ivan MOKHOV	USA	7
11	Valentina PLAZAS / Maximiliano FERNANDEZ	USA	7
12	Anastasiia SMIRNOVA / Danylo SIIANYTSIA	USA	7

Ice Dance

Name	Nation
Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SOERENSEN	CAN	1
Natalie TASCHLEROVA / Filip TASCHLER	CZE	2
Solene MAZINGUE / Marko Jevgeni GAIDAJENKO	EST	3
Aleksandra SAMERSOVA / Kevin OJALA	EST	3
Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN	FIN	4
Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS	FIN	4
Maria KAZAKOVA / Georgy REVIYA	GEO	5
Mariia NOSOVITSKAYA / Mikhail NOSOVITSKIY	ISR	6
Paulina RAMANAUSKAITE / Deividas KIZALA	LTU	7
Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS	USA	8
Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER	USA	8
Angela LING / Caleb WEIN	USA	8

 

[surimi]

So. Entries are out, and my fears are confirmed: not a single Japanese skater. I absolutely despise Japanese Federation for what they did to their skaters this season. And to their foreign fans.
- Kana and Daisuke. No Challenger. Their counterparts got one.
- Mai, Rino, Yuhana, Rion, all without a Challenger. Kaori, Wakaba, Rinka and Mana all got one.
- all the best Japanese men except for Koshiro and Kazuki - no Challenger.
Thanks, JSF and Kinoshita, you have managed to completely turn me off Koshiro with your undeserved prezzies for him, although he seems to be a nice boy and a decent skater otherwise.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

So no skaters from Norway as expected I wish Norway would spend more money on sending skaters to Challengers and start doing so earlier in the season Even Denmark is going to Finlandia. I´m not surprised though. Last year they only sent skaters to one Challenger before Christmas, the one in Austria in November. I guess they will do the same this year, and before that skaters will go to Senior B events. But it would just have been nice to have Norway represented in Finland. It seems no of the current skaters are listed as elite skaters in Norway now, I think that´s the reason that Sondre and Anne Line/Camilla was sent to more Challengers, I know there is a difference in money funding.

 

[Jeanie19]

So. Entries are out, and my fears are confirmed: not a single Japanese skater. I absolutely despise Japanese Federation for what they did to their skaters this season. And to their foreign fans.
- Kana and Daisuke. No Challenger. Their counterparts got one.
- Mai, Rino, Yuhana, Rion, all without a Challenger. Kaori, Wakaba, Rinka and Mana all got one.
- all the best Japanese men except for Koshiro and Kazuki - no Challenger.
Thanks, JSF and Kinoshita, you have managed to completely turn me off Koshiro with your undeserved prezzies for him, although he seems to be a nice boy and a decent skater otherwise.

That's just terrible. Particularly for Mai as she's the reigning 4CC champion.

 

[surimi]

That's just terrible. Particularly for Mai as she's the reigning 4CC champion.

I beg to disagree. It's disappointing that champions are not sent to Challengers (it's not just Mai, it's Kagiyama and Uno in men as well), but their situation is still very good because they're easily in the world top 10. Their assignment chances won't suffer, that's for sure.
What's 'terrible' are skaters who are lower than 20th in WS, and only get GP while every European boy and girl is busy racking up points in CS and B events to climb as high as they can in WS, and get many opportunities for a new SB.
These unfortunate Japanese only have to have an off day, a bad case of nerves, or a minor injury on their GP, and they're going to drop down the world standings like stones, while less talented skaters, but from smarter federations, will easily pass them over for next year's assignments. If Mai, a medal favorite, not being assigned to lesser events is 'terrible' to you, then what word would you use to describe the predicament of someone like Sena Miyake? He was 4th at 4CC. Now he only got assigned to Skate America, to compete against Kagiyama, Cha, Miura and Malinin. That would be my definition of awful.

With the absence of Russians coupled with the unfair non-assignments for Japan and China, the world standings have just become a worthless piece of paper. They will not feature those who are the best anymore, but the ones who get the most opportunities. It's not the fault of the Japanese and the Chinese skaters that their own fedrations are trying to kill their careers, and lose FS yet more fans. As if the ban on Russians and Hanyu's retirement are not detrimental enough for FS's popularity, ISU and JSF have to pile up yet more bad news.

 

[Jeanie19]

I beg to disagree. It's disappointing that champions are not sent to Challengers (it's not just Mai, it's Kagiyama and Uno in men as well), but their situation is still very good because they're easily in the world top 10. Their assignment chances won't suffer, that's for sure.
What's 'terrible' are skaters who are lower than 20th in WS, and only get GP while every European boy and girl is busy racking up points in CS and B events to climb as high as they can in WS, and get many opportunities for a new SB.
These unfortunate Japanese only have to have an off day, a bad case of nerves, or a minor injury on their GP, and they're going to drop down the world standings like stones, while less talented skaters, but from smarter federations, will easily pass them over for next year's assignments. If Mai, a medal favorite, not being assigned to lesser events is 'terrible' to you, then what word would you use to describe the predicament of someone like Sena Miyake? He was 4th at 4CC. Now he only got assigned to Skate America, to compete against Kagiyama, Cha, Miura and Malinin. That would be my definition of awful.

With the absence of Russians coupled with the unfair non-assignments for Japan and China, the world standings have just become a worthless piece of paper. They will not feature those who are the best anymore, but the ones who get the most opportunities. It's not the fault of the Japanese and the Chinese skaters that their own fedrations are trying to kill their careers, and lose FS yet more fans. As if the ban on Russians and Hanyu's retirement are not detrimental enough for FS's popularity, ISU and JSF have to pile up yet more bad news.

I agree with everything you say, I just mentioned Mai because she's one of my all time favorites. And I do feel bad for Miyake as Skate America is a tough field to have your only GP assignment. I love the Japanese skaters and I have always agreed with your posts.

 

[surimi]

I agree with everything you say, I just mentioned Mai because she's one of my all time favorites. And I do feel bad for Miyake as Skate America is a tough field to have your only GP assignment. I love the Japanese skaters and I have always agreed with your posts.

Thank you, and sorry if I sounded snide in the previous post. That was not directed at you of course, but I'm currently full of frustration with JSF and partly also ISU.

 

[Jeanie19]

Thank you, and sorry if I sounded snide in the previous post. That was not directed at you of course, but I'm currently full of frustration with JSF and partly also ISU.

I totally understand. I get excited when the entries are announced and then I see the field is either totally stacked or empty, no in between.